Ingri Fiksdal works as a choreographer based in Stavanger, Norway. Her artistic research develops choreography as a site for critical thinking and knowledge production grounded in embodied, affective and material experience. Following her PhD project Affective Choreographies (Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2013–2019), her research has increasingly examined how dominant epistemological frameworks determine which bodies, histories and forms of knowledge are granted value, and how choreographic practice can generate alternative ways of thinking about social and ecological relations. Within CoFUTURES (University of Oslo, 2020–2024), Ingri has developed the long-term research trajectory Coeval Dancefutures, using choreography as a form of speculative fiction to investigate hegemonies of knowledge and power within dance-as-art from decolonial and post-anthropocentric perspectives. Across this work, practice and theory are treated as mutually constitutive: choreography does not primarily illustrate existing theory but operates as a research practice through which concepts and critical perspectives can emerge from bodily, sensory and material experimentation.
Ingri’s work is presented in contexts for both performing and visual art, including The Bentway in Toronto, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Kunstnernes Hus and MUNCH in Oslo, Obscene Festival in Seoul, Homo Novus in Riga, Kunstenfestival in Brussels, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Santarcangelo festival, Beijing Contemporary Dance Festival, Sommerszene in Salzburg, Reykjavík Art Museum, brut-Wien, Teatro di Roma, Harbourfront Centre Toronto, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, BUDA Kortrijk, Tanzhaus NRW in Dusseldorf and Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz.
Ingri´s work is supported by Arts Council Norway - Etablerte kunstnere.